Good evening! Clauwdy, ducking cold and 35 degrees in Delmar. ☁ Although for now it’s above freezing in Trump’s America, although a lot of things seem frozen in the nation’s capital. Breezy, ️20 mph breeze from the west-northwest 🌬 with gusts up to 33 mph 💨💨💨. The current wind chill is 24. Temperatures will drop below freezing at around 6 pm. ☃️

Tonight will have a chance of snow showers, mainly after 1am. Mostly cloudy 🌧, with a low of 25 degrees at 5am. 11 degrees above normal, which is similiar to a typical night around March 14th. There is hope. Or so the sign on the bridge says. Maximum wind chill around 14 at 5am; Northwest wind 16 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. In 2018, we had cloudy in the evening, which became mostly sunny by the early hours of the morning. It got down to 10 degrees. The record low of -13 occurred back in 1968.

Tonight will have a Waxing Crescent Moon 🌒 with 21% illuminated with the moon setting at 8:10 pm. The moon will rise at 10:09 am. The First Quarter Moon is on Sunday night. The Wolf Moon 🌝 is on Sunday, January 20th. The sun will rise at 7:24 am with the first light at 6:53 am, which is 15 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌄 Tonight will have 14 hours and 43 minutes of darkness, a decrease of one minute and 21 seconds over last night.

Tomorrow will have a chance of snow showers, mainly before 9am. Mostly cloudy 🌞, with a high of 27 degrees at 6am. Three degrees below normal. Blustery, with a northwest wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph. Probably shouldn’t turn my heat down much before work. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. A year ago, we had mostly sunny skies in the morning, which became light snow by afternoon. The high last year was 38 degrees. The record high of 55 was set in 2016. 7.3 inches of snow fell back in 1984.❄

Cool this weekend with temperatures running 6 degrees below normal but otherwise sunny. 😀 Saturday, mostly sunny, with a high near 25. Sunday, partly sunny, with a high near 24. Typical average high for the weekend is 30 degrees. The sun will be nice but we’ll have to watch the wind chills. I have a lot of things to do this weekend but if it’s reasonably warm for January I might go for a hike up Bennett Hill.

So they finally restored the lights back to my office so it’s not pitch black at five o’clock.:idea: The days are definitely getting longer for sure, but I figure there will be more late nights coming up and everything is was when it’s not so dark after sunset.

On Cyber Monday I ordered an SSD Drive for my laptop that just arrived today. 💾 It was back ordered for a really long time. It’s good because it will double my hard drive space giving me more room to do videos and will make my laptop boot much quicker. I am going to do a clean install of Linux on it this weekend to maximize the speed benefit. I find I often bog my desktop with software I try out but never uninstall and a fresh slate is good for time to time. Not sure if I will install the drive tonight.

In four weeks on February 6 the sun will be setting at 5:15 pm,🌄 which is 34 minutes and 59 seconds later then tonight. In 2018 on that day, we had snow showers, partly cloudy and temperatures between 30 and 15 degrees. Typically, you have temperatures between 33 and 16 degrees. The record high of 55 degrees was set back in 1991.

Looking ahead, National Cheese Lovers Day 🧀 is in 2 weeks, National Pie Day 🍰 is in 2 weeks, 7 PM Sunset 🌆 is in 9 weeks, May 🕊 is in 16 weeks, 8:30 PM Sunset ️⛱️ is in 21 weeks and Inauguration Day 2021 👴🏻 is in 106 weeks.